America's first daughter : a novel
Record details
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file (23 hr., 03 min., 22 sec.))
remote - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : HarperAudio, 2016.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
Summary, etc.: | As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Patsy becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother's death. She travels with him when he becomes American minister to France. It is in Paris that Patsy learns about her father's liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love with her father's protégé William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Her choices will follow her in the years to come, and as scandal, tragedy, and poverty threaten her family Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father's reputation. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed March 9, 2016) |
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Subject: | Randolph, Martha Jefferson 1772-1836 Fiction Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Fiction Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Randolph, Martha Jefferson 1772-1836 Children of presidents Fiction |
Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |